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CT HUMANITIES FUND GRANTS AWARDED FY2020 *Includes Funding from Hartford Foundation for Public Giving CT HUMANITIES FUND GRANTS AWARDED FY2020 *Includes funding from Hartford Foundation for Public Giving CAPACITY GRANTS 6 grants | $45,000 CHESHIRE Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium Cheshire Historical Society $9,900 $4,774 Board development, succession planning Strategic Plan Development MIDDLETOWN EAST HADDAM Russell Library Company East Haddam Historical Society, Inc. $9,800 $5,006 Future-Ready for Middletown: A Strategic Planning Process Creating Community Connections Through Visionary Planning for the Russell Library HARTFORD NEW HAVEN Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Yale University/Yale Peabody Museum $8,020 $7,500 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Collection Digitization Planning Developing a community engagement framework for creative storytelling in the new human culture galleries of the Yale Peabody Museum IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS 9 grants | $204,137 BRIDGEPORT NORWALK Barnum Museum Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum $24,999 $20,000 Creating the Online Exhibition, New Ways to Face History: An Health, Healing, & Addiction in 19th Century America Egyptian Mummy and Coffin Reveal Their Stories Norwalk Historical Society HARTFORD $35,000 Connecticut Forum Inc Norwalk’s Changing Communities Before 1835; An Exhibition $25,000* That Explores the Norwalk Community Debating Immigration OLD LYME NEW CANAAN Florence Griswold Museum Silvermine Guild of Artists, Inc. $30,000 $25,000 The Year of Alternative Voices The Golden Door: Exploring the American Experience of Immigration and Migration WATERBURY Mattatuck Museum NEW LONDON $15,999 Lyman Allyn Art Museum Mattatuck Museum History Gallery Reinterpretation $20,460 The Way Sisters: Miniaturists of the Early Republic WESTPORT Westport Country Playhouse $7,679 Programs for Next to Normal production in April 2021 1 PARTNERSHIP GRANTS 6 grants | $128,907 HARTFORD NEW BRITAIN Connecticut Public Affairs Network Connecticut League of History Organizations $7,500* $41,500 Connecticut’s Kid Governor® 2019-20 Connecticut League of History Organizations Partnership Grant 2020–2021 $25,000* Connecticut History Day NEW HAVEN International Festival of Arts & Ideas MYSTIC $25,000 Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. International Festival of Arts & Ideas - IDEAS on Democracy $23,907 Exploring Women’s Suffrage: Connecticut Collections Alliance NEW LONDON Connecticut Storytelling Center $6,000 Sharing Connecticut Stories PLANNING GRANTS 7 grants | $151,498 COS COB NEW HAVEN Greenwich Historical Society Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Inc $22,248 $24,875 Planning & Development of Exhibition on Sports and Athletic Connecticut’s Resilient Indigenous People Pastimes in Greenwich Yale University/ Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, HARTFORD Resistance, and Abolition Connecticut Public $25,000 $20,000 Planning a Composite Curriculum: A Professional Development Connecticut Public Sheff Documentary Program in African American and Latino Studies LITCHFIELD NORWALK Litchfield Historical Society Stepping Stones Museum for Children $25,000 $25,000 "To Come to a Land of Milk and Honey": Litchfield and the We (Heart) America!: Phase 2 Connecticut Western Reserve WEST HARTFORD Elizabeth Park Conservancy $9,375* Preparing Historical and Humanities Content for the New Elizabeth Park Visitor's Center 2 QUICK GRANTS 37 grants | $134,258 AVON Avon Free Public Library Connecticut Historical Society $4,030* $4,521 DEEDS NOT WORDS: 100 Years of the Vote for Women Hidden Figures No More: Sharing New Research on BRIDGEPORT Connecticut’s Women of Color and the Suffrage Movement Barnum Museum $4,729 $4,000 CHS 3D Exhibit Tours Before the Afterlife: Exploring the Culture and Life of the Barnum Museum's Egyptian Mummy Connecticut Public Affairs Network $2,500 Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport/Hang Time The 2020 Census: Count me in! $2,500 Her Time Harriet Beecher Stowe Center $4,664* Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation, Inc. An Evening with David Blight. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of $3,500 Freedom Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Mark Twain House & Museum COS COB $4,999 The Trouble Begins at 5:30 Lecture Series and Trouble at Greenwich Historical Society Home Conversations $4,999 Digital Exhibition Pilot Project: An Unfinished Revolution Everyday Democracy $4,899* ELLINGTON Civic Leadership and Organizing for Change in the 21st Ellington Historical Society Century $4,899 History of Farming Exhibit LITCHFIELD Litchfield Historical Society FAIRFIELD $3,500 Fairfield Museum Antiquarian to Accredited: A Look Inside the Historical Society $2,500 Voting Was Just the Beginning: 100 Years of Women Making $4,845 History By the Force of its Own Merits: Examining the Life and Legacy of the Litchfield Female Academy HAMDEN Quinnipiac University/ Ireland's Great Hunger Institute MADISON $3,500 Madison Historical Society Oscar Wilde Revisited - Symposium: ‘Being Wilde. the $4,999 Importance of Oscar’ Exhibition: ‘Oscar Wilde and the Turning the Tide: Madison and COVID-19 Importance of Being Irish’ MIDDLETOWN HARTFORD Russell Library Company Charter Oak Cultural Center $2,000 $3,000* Common Ground 2019--The 11th Middletown International The 1619 Project: Understanding the Legacy of Slavery Film Festival 3 NEW BRITAIN THOMPSON New Britain Museum of American Art Town of Thompson CT $2,000 $4,000 Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War Thompson Connecticut Commemorates Six Months of (Annotated) Programs Suffrage NEW CANAAN WASHINGTON DEPOT New Canaan Historical Society After School Arts Program, Inc $4,999 $2,850 Glass House Presents The Empathy Project (EP) – Meeting Hate with Humanity NEW HAVEN WATERBURY Artspace Mattatuck Museum $4,999 $2,500 Revolution on Trial: May Day and The People’s Art, New Women’s Suffrage @ The MATT Haven’s Black Panthers @ 50 WEST HARTFORD CitySeed, Inc. Eric G Norfeldt School Parent Teacher Organization $1,252 $303 We Are Not Princesses: Sanctuary Kitchen Film Screening & A Community Conversation on Gender Talk Back with Syrian Refugee Chefs Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford RIDGEFIELD $2,024 Ridgefield Historical Society Back to the Old Neighborhoods Tour $4,974 Votes for Women: Ridgefield Celebrates the 19th Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society Amendment $2,400* Non-Native Control of Native Identity in Connecticut: A STAMFORD Historical Perspective Franklin Street Gallery $4,900 WESTPORT Group Exhibition, Otherwise Obscured: Erasure in Body and Westport Historical Society Text $4,999 Westport In Focus: Long Lens Oral History Project STONINGTON Stonington Village Improvement Association/ James Merrill Westport Library Association House Committee $4,999 $2,435 WestportREADS Westport’s Suffragists—Our Neighbors, Our The James Merrill Lecture Series Crusaders TERRYVILLE WILTON Terryville Public Library G B Cultural Foundation $4,000 $2,540 Plymouth, CT Community Reads A Better Life in Georgetown WINSTED Northwestern Community College Foundation $3,500 The Art of Work in Community 4 CARES ACT HUMANITIES RELIEF GRANTS 70 grants | $478,467 BRIDGEPORT GROTON Mary and Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community, Inc. Avery-Copp Museum $5,000 $5,000 BRISTOL Bill Memorial Library American Clock & Watch Museum $3,467 $10,000 GUILFORD CHESHIRE Dudley Foundation Cheshire Historical Society $2,500 $2,500 Guilford Keeping Society CHESTER $2,500 Chester Historical Society $2,500 The Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society, Inc. $2,500 COLCHESTER Colchester Historical Society HADDAM $2,500 Haddam Historical Society $5,000 COS COB Greenwich Historical Society HAMDEN $15,000 Community Mediation, Inc./ Students for Educational Justice $10,000 DEEP RIVER Deep River Historical Society Ireland's Great Hunger Museum $2,500 $10,000 ESSEX HARTFORD Essex Historical Society Amistad Center for Art & Culture $5,000 $10,000 FAIRFIELD Connecticut Historical Society $15,000 Fairfield Museum $15,000 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center $15,000 FARMINGTON Farmington Village Green Mark Twain House & Museum and Library Association $15,000 $5,000 Sankofa Kuumba Cultural Arts Consortium GLASTONBURY $2,500 Historical Society of Glastonbury $5,000 LEBANON Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution GREENWICH $2,500 Open Arts Alliance Inc. $5,000 5 Lebanon Historical Society NORWICH $10,000 Norwich Historical Society $2,500 LITCHFIELD Litchfield Historical Society Society of the Founders of Norwich $15,000 $2,500 MADISON OLD LYME Madison Historical Society Florence Griswold Museum $5,000 $15,000 MIDDLETOWN ORANGE Middlesex County Historical Society Orange Historical Society $2,500 $2,500 MYSTIC PORTLAND Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. Portland Historical Society $15,000 $2,500 NEW BRITAIN RIDGEFIELD Connecticut League of History Organizations Keeler Tavern Preservation Society, Inc. $20,000 $10,000 NEW HAVEN Ridgefield Historical Society Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame $2,500 $10,000 SHARON Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven Sharon Historical Society $2,500 $5,000 NEW LONDON SHELTON New London Landmarks Shelton Historical Society, Inc. $5,000 $2,500 New London Maritime Society SIMSBURY $10,000 Simsbury Historical Society $2,500 Thames River Heritage Park Foundation $5,000 SOUTH WINDSOR Friends of Wood Memorial Library NORWALK $5,000 Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County $5,000 STAMFORD Stamford Historical Society Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum $5,000 $10,000 STONINGTON Norwalk Historical Society Stonington Historical Society $5,000 $10,000 6 Stonington Village Improvement Association/ James Merrill House WESTON Committee Weston Historical Society $5,000 $2,500 VERNON WESTPORT Vernon
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